If you want to work in the future today then this media job at Infinite Analytics could be for you. Infinite Analytics enables their customers to use their eCommerce data to predict consumer behavior and personalize experiences. Infinite Analytics utilizes machine learning, natural language processing, random forest modeling, image recognition, and semantic technologies to drive increased sales and conversions on client sites. The secret sauce is matching individual’s profiles to product profiles, which they call genomes. In essence Infinite Analytics is learning everything about the people that buy specific products and matching that information with the deep profiles they develop of your website visitors. We spoke with Arjun Mendhi, the Director of Products for Infinite Analytics, who talked about all the great MIT minds that are at work finding ways to maximize sales from ecommerce stores. But isn’t all this personalization biasing the results? Only showing your products you’re most likely to buy vs letting you explore the products? Arjun explains how it all works to Roy Weissman of Media Jobs: Roy: This is Roy Weissman from MediaJobs.com, and we’re talking with Arjun Mendhi, the Director of Products for Infinite Analytics. Arjun, tell us, what is Infinite Analytics?…

Are you ready to work in the future? No, we haven’t discovered a startup that is ready to develop and market time machines. Not yet anyway, but we’re still looking. How about the media jobs of the future? That’s what we’re bringing you today, a list of next-generation companies that are the latest chosen few for the Disney Accelerator, the corporate accelerator program run by the Walt Disney Company. The media jobs at these companies and will be highly sought after for openings by anyone looking for positions in virtual reality, robotics, influence marketing, AI,cinematic VR media jobs, and maybe sports and toys. Why is this such a coveted group? Because former alumni of the Disney Accelerator have gone on to develop partnerships with the media and entertainment giant, and let’s face it – working with Disney isn’t small potatoes. So what are the lucky companies that have been picked to participate in the third session of the accelerator program? We’re so glad you asked. Let’s take a look at the next ten possible recipients of your resume, alphabetically of course. Ader is a marketplace that connects brands with eSports and gaming influencers, and their network of influencers is already reaching over…

When you’re considering companies to apply with for jobs in media, specifically jobs in online video or streaming music, you might have companies like Spotify, Netflix, or even YoutTube on that list. Most of you, we’re going to bet, don’t have Jobs at Bittorrent on the list, even towards the bottom. Maybe you should reconsider that. You don’t want to work for a pirating company, you say. That makes sense, considering your employment there could be in much more tenuous than at other, more legitimate companies. But what if Bittorrent was completely on the up and up? What if there was no pirated content at all? What if – although it sounds more than strange – there weren’t even any torrents involved? How over the top would that be? Bittorrent is making a bid to move into the streaming video and streaming music space and compete with the best of them. Well, sort of. The catalog available through the company’s newest venture, known as Bittorrent Now, will be mostly artists you’ve never heard of. However, they will all be legit and the content will be what’s been uploaded by the artists themselves. What a strange twist. To untwist it slightly, the old familiar…

Dave Scott got the idea for Laugh.ly after spending a year doing stand up comedy. He realized how much everyone loves a good laugh and he thought he could be the first one to laugh all the way to the bank for the right reasons. Scott says that 50 million tickets were sold to comedy clubs in 2015 and believes that is an indicator of the potential for his business. With a similar business model to Spotify, a freemium option with commercials and a $7.99 per month option sans commercials, Laugh.ly will be both an app and a website. But comedy is all about context and Dave explains how he will catalog, archive and present his humor in a way that will keep you laughing. Listen in as Roy Weissman of Media Jobs interviews Dave. Roy: This is Roy Weissman from Mediajobs.com. We’re talking with Dave Scott, the CEO of Laugh.ly. Dave: The reason I started Laugh.ly was because I actually did stand-up comedy for a year. After I sold my last company, I did open mics and then worked my way up to big headliners and I realized how much people love comedy. In fact, of the 160…

Once upon a time there were banks, and there were only banks. This was the extent of the financial industry for the most part, and then came fund management and other extensions of the banking and finance industry. But they were, for the most part, just that – extensions of the existing structure. Then the Internet became ubiquitous, and out of the primordial online ooze crawled PayPal. Suddenly things were different. Since then we’ve been introduced to a new version of the financial industry, known as fintech. A merging of the financial industry and the digital revolution, fintech crawled slowly after PayPal become the major player, and to some the only player, in the emerging fintech world. But as all disruptive industries do, fintech progressed from crawling to walking, and today it is running in full stride and gaining speed. Now we have mobile payments everywhere, online banking, and even cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin that threaten to crush the old banking system and pave the way for a new financial world altogether. It’s no wonder that VCs are carefully considering new fintech startups and throwing significant investments at some. If you’re considering jobs in fintech, it would be great to know…